待翻译：Wiola 13M, a Gated Spiral Attention Architecture for Parameter Efficient Small Language Models
AI 服务暂时不可用，以下为来源摘要，待恢复后补全翻译：arXiv:2608.14604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language models in the ten to one hundred million parameter range are attractive for on device inference, rapid experimentation, and controlled scientific study, yet most of them reuse the standard transformer block without adaptation to the small scale regime. We present Wiola, a decoder only language model whose novelty is concentrated in three drop in components of every layer. First, Spiral Rotary Positional Encoding perturbs the standard rotary frequencies by a slowly growing per dimension factor so that phase trajectories fan outward, improving long range discrimination while adding no parameters. Second, Gated Spiral Attention introduces a per head, content adaptive scalar gate derived from a causal cumulative statistic of the query stream, providing an implicit and differentiable form of soft head selection at negligible cost. Third, the Butterfly feed forward block replaces the conventional expansion layer with a multiplicative interaction and an intra block bypass path, matching the parameter count of a four times gated linear unit block while improving gradient flow in shallow stacks. We formalize each component, derive exact parameter and computation budgets, and prove that the gated attention admits an exact and numerically verified equivalence between full sequence training and cached autoregressive decoding, so that no approximation is introduced at inference time. We also describe a fully reproducible training and evaluation protocol on a standard tiny story corpus. The reference implementation is released as an open source package with weights ready publishing support.
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--> [Submitted on 3 Jul 2026] Title:Wiola 13M, a Gated Spiral Attention Architecture for Parameter Efficient Small Language Models View a PDF of the paper titled Wiola 13M, a Gated Spiral Attention Architecture for Parameter Efficient Small Language Models, by Aryuemaan Kumar Chowdhury and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Small language models in the ten to one hundred million parameter range are attractive for on device inference, rapid experimentation, and controlled scientific study, yet most of them reuse the standard transformer block without adaptation to the small scale regime. We present Wiola, a decoder only language model whose novelty is concentrated in three drop in components of every layer. First, Spiral Rotary Positional Encoding perturbs the standard rotary frequencies by a slowly growing per dimension factor so that phase trajectories fan outward, improving long range discrimination while adding no parameters. Second, Gated Spiral Attention introduces a per head, content adaptive scalar gate derived from a causal cumulative statistic of the query stream, providing an implicit and differentiable form of soft head selection at negligible cost. Third, the Butterfly feed forward block replaces the conventional expansion layer with a multiplicative interaction and an intra block bypass path, matching the parameter count of a four times gated linear unit block while improving gradient flow in shallow stacks. We formalize each component, derive exact parameter and computation budgets, and prove that the gated attention admits an exact and numerically verified equivalence between full sequence training and cached autoregressive decoding, so that no approximation is introduced at inference time. We also describe a fully reproducible training and evaluation protocol on a standard tiny story corpus. The reference implementation is released as an open source package with weights ready publishing support. Comments: 6 Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2608.14604 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2608.14604v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.14604 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Aryuemaan Chowdhury [view email] [v1] Fri, 3 Jul 2026 14:02:11 UTC (1,630 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Wiola 13M, a Gated Spiral Attention Architecture for Parameter Efficient Small Language Models, by Aryuemaan Kumar Chowdhury and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)